James Dyson Award is now accepting entries

Dyson’s international design award, the James Dyson Award, is now accepting entries that will follow the brief “design something which solves a problem, big or small.” The winner of the competition doesn’t just gain international exposure but also $50,000 to develop the idea. Last year’s winner was a team from McMaster University who worked on a low-cost, early detection melanoma skin cancer device called The sKan. If you’re an young designer or engineer who’s still in school or just graduated and have an idea you want to pitch, you can read more about the contest after the jump.

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Huawei and Porsche Design amps up the best features of the P20 Pro with the Mate RS, including the price

 

An exorbitant amount of money will need to be shelled out if you’re even thinking about getting the Porsche Design version of the P20 phones. Called the Porsche Huawei Mate RS, this extremely high-end version of the P20 Pro. This one packs in two fingerprint readers, a 512GB storage option, 6-inch OLED screen, Kirin 970 processor, Android 8.1, 6GB of RAM, IP67 rating, 4,000mAh battery with wireless charging support, and no top notch in sight. Of course, you get the Leica co-branded triple camera system you’ve seen in the P20 Pro. But you will pay a pretty penny for this. The 256GB version is priced €1,695 (around $2,700 CAD) and the 512GB version is priced at €2,095 (around $3,300 CAD).

No word yet if this phone will make its way here but it is launching in China, Hong Kong, and Macau on April 12^th, and will then be launched in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK. It’s also expected to launch in Southeast Asia in the middle of May.

Source: CNET

Huawei outs AirPods-inspired FreeBuds

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It seems the P20 and P20 Pro aren’t the only Apple iPhone X-inspired products Huawei launched. Huawei also unveiled at its Paris event the FreeBuds, which you can easily mistake for AirPods, but it comes in either black or white, unlike Apple’s version. The FreeBuds promise 10 hours of playback when it’s fully charged, which is double the capacity of the AirPods. It also comes with a charging case that with its horizontal orientation makes it look like “you’re putting the FreeBuds to rest in a tiny twin coffin,” according to The Verge. Huawei claims the FreeBuds will offer better noise isolation with its in-ear designs but that has to be tested first, of course. The FreeBuds retail for €159 (around $250 CAD).

Samsung Galaxy A8 comes to Canada

If you’ve been keeping your eye out for the Samsung Galaxy A8, it’s now officially here. As a quick refresher, the Galaxy A8 comes with a 5.6-inch Infinity Display with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio and 1,080 x 2,220 pixel resolution and runs on an Exynos 7885 octa-core chipset, 4GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage. The cameras on the A8 include a 16-megapixel rear shooter combined with a dual 16- and 8-megapixel front-facing cameras. The A8 is available in Black and Orchid Grey and retails for $650. It is available through the Samsung Experience Stores, through Samsung.ca, or through all major Canadian carriers. There is no word yet if the A8+ is also making its way here.